Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports
From: moe@sdsioa.ucsd.edu
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:25:33 GMT
To: shipsked@ucsd.ucsd.edu
Subject: R/V Melville, Weekly Scientific Report, 10/3/00, Cook 02
Cc: moe@sdsioa.ucsd.edu
>From melville!chatwood@sdsioa.UCSD.EDU Tue Oct 10 02:17 GMT 2000
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 20:51:58 +0000 (GMT)
From: "John M. Chatwood" <melville!chatwood@sdsioa.UCSD.EDU>
Subject: 2nd week's Chief-Sci report
To: scg@sdsioa.ucsd.edu
R/V Melville, Weekly Scientific Report, 10/3/00, Cook 02. XBT (every
30 minutes of time) section from off Arica, Chile to 85.0W, 20.0N
completed. Bottom surveyed to locate mooring site, and surface
mooring deployed. Intercomparisons between shipboard and buoy IMET
systems completed. Mooring on station and performing well. CTD
station made at mooring site to begin XBT/CTD section back along 20.0S
toward Arica across part of Peru Basin and across the northern end of
the Chile Basin. Deep CTD stations every degree of longitude, with
water collected for nutrients and chemistry, to be taken until just
of Chile.
-Bob Weller, Chief Scientist
This cruise is being funded by a grant from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
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